Srinagar, March 30 : In Srinagar , the High court has quashed the illegal detention of three youth who were detained under black law, Public Safety Act (PSA)and directed Police to release them. Justice Rabistan Tashi while terming the detention of Raipora Palhallan youth, Nasir Ahmed Ganie, as illegal, quashed his PSA and directed police to release him.
Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak, counsel for Nasir Ahmed Ganaie submitted before the court that all the charges levelled against his client are frivolous while the fact is that he had already been bailed out by court and yet PSA was slapped on him.
“My client has been arrested on 31 January 2014 and the irony is that police have charged him for the alleged role in stone-pelting in the year 2010. What were police doing and why it waited for 4 long years? Police have also accused him of being the part of group that pelted stones on a police vehicle in October 2013 in Palhallan and for that charge he had already been bailed out by the court,” Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak told the court.
After listening to the arguments from both the sides, Justice Rabistan Tashi quashed his detention under PSA and directed Police to release him. Nasir has been lodged in Kathua jail.
In another case, Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar quashed the detention of a Computer Engineer student Muhammad Adil Mir under draconian law, Public Safety Act. Mir also hails from Raipora area of Palhallan. He was booked by police under an FIR vide number 18/2015 under section 148,149,336,332,427,307 RPC and was shifted to Udhampur Jail. (CNS)
The High Court also quashed detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA) of 25 -years old Zubair Ahmed Turray against whom PSA had been slapped for his alleged involvement in “anti-India activities”. The court ordered release of Zubair Turray, a resident of Bongam Shopian who was lodged at the Udhampur jail in Jammu since November 2015.
Justice Muzafar Hussain Attar, who had earlier reserved order on the petition filed by Zubair’s counsel, Advocate Bashir Ahmed Tak quashed the PSA detention and ordered his immediate release. The PSA empowers a District Magistrate to take anyone in his district into preventive custody for up to two years without trial if he feels the person poses a threat to ‘security’ in the state.
The charge sheet filed by police against the youth clims that Zubair Ahmed Turray son of Bashir Ahmed had been instrumental in inciting violence during Aasiya Nelofar murder case, Amarnath Land Row and 2010 mass agitation. Police had claimed that that had arrested the youth multiple times since 2008 and he is a staunch supporter of liberation movement in Kashmir.